Chinese Art A blue and white Nanking cargo porcelain bowl China, Transitional period, 17th century . . Cm 19,00 x 8,50. Resting on a disc foot, the exterior underglaze painted with landscape and lush greenery.On January 3rd 1752, the Geldermalsen ship of the Dutch India Company, VOC, struck the reef and sank in the South China Sea. It was a cargo ship that left Nanking, in the province of Jiangsu, headed to the Motherland filled with Jingdezhen porcelain, tea, silks and other typically oriental products.The ship was sunk up to 1985 when it was discovered by Captain Michael Hatcher. In April of the same year Christie's Amsterdam auctioned the result of the discovery coining the term "Nanking Cargo".